We pair direct service with journalism to improve the quality of life in Kensington. We generally cover stories from Cecil B.
3000 Kensington Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
19134
| Monday | 10am - 6pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 6pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 6pm |
| Friday | 10am - 6pm |
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Kensington Voice is a community-driven news project that began in August 2018 as a journalism class at Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. The class was created on a hunch that in a neighborhood often at the center of stigmatizing news coverage, journalists weren’t always meeting the community’s needs.
For several months, student journalists and organizers hit the streets and worked alongside community organizations and residents to form a prototype of what the neighborhood would want from a neighborhood newsroom. We most often heard that “Kensington needs a voice,” and Kensington Voice was born.
We’ve operated as a pop-up newsroom, available to the public in various locations such as libraries, subway and bus stations, parks, street corners, art-making spaces, and more. In January 2019, we launched a digital publication, which so far has included first-person narratives, news features, and solutions-focused stories. Since that time, we’ve also hosted various community storytelling workshops across the neighborhood at Free Library branches and neighborhood nonprofit spaces like The Lighthouse and The Kensington Storefront.
Last summer, we received funding from the Independence Media Foundation to expand our efforts. With that support, we were able to hire three recent Temple graduates to work as journalists, and several student journalists, too. On March 17, we signed a lease for a public newsroom space on Lehigh Avenue, just as COVID-19 began to spread in Philadelphia. While we wait for this crisis to resolve, we are working remotely to serve the neighborhood as best as we can.
